What must it be like to have such faith in the world, in plans, in your own ability to control your fate? It was contagious, that's what it was. I could not help it. I caught his hope like a plague.

I tried very hard not to ponder the horrible irony that I was too ugly to love, and too ugly not to violate.

Love may start out as a good feeling, but to love someone long-term is an act of the will.

She was a handsome woman of forty-five and would remain so for many years.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Mum, Vitali just sent me a text, would you pass me a new pair of panties.

But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

The lion's share of the bear market is over, ... It's a two-part issue. Yes, the marketplace could be nasty. But there's a great deal of nastiness that's already happened in the bond market.

Cars and women are a lot alike. They lie about the milage.

If Barack Obama is elected, I'll be moving out of the country.

Everyone knows that senior citizens are stupid